Biomedical subjects

D B Cannarozzi

Publications and source records attributed to D B Cannarozzi.

5 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed1988

Optic neuropathy associated with chronic lymphomatous meningitis.

A patient with paranasal sinus lymphoma (recognized retrospectively) developed unilateral, acute, self-limited optic neuritis during the course of chronic lymphocytic meningitis with elevated intracranial pressure and headache. Meningeal symptoms were adequately controlled with analgesics alone for 14 months and corticosteroids alone for a subsequent 11 months without evidence of development of other involvement of organs outside the central nervous system (CNS). Eventually, the visual alteration from optic neuritis prompted a repeat evaluation, which disclosed lymphoma in bone marrow. The subject of paraneoplastic optic neuritis is reviewed.

Biopsy↗

PubMed1984

Orbitocalvarial swelling and proptosis as an early manifestation of systemic lymphoma.

A 67-year-old woman had acutely diminished vision and painful proptosis of the left eye amidst a background of chronic headache, scalp tenderness, proximal myalgias, intermittent fever, anemia, and elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rates. All symptoms and signs were exquisitely corticosteroid-responsive. She underwent two negative temporal artery biopsies and several extensive negative evaluations for systemic disease. Ultimately deep scalp biopsy, bone biopsy, and bone marrow aspiration were performed, and all revealed a histologically well-differentiated lymphoma.

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PubMed1977

Hypercalcitoninemia in pancreatitis--evidence for immunochemical heterogeneity.

Recently in our laboratory we have demonstrated increased immunoreactive calcitonin (iCT) levels in 4 patients with acute pancreatitis and hypocalcemia. The present study consists of 17 additional patients in whom serial determinations for (iCT) were performed. Furthermore, with the use of 2 different antisera directed against human calcitonin we present evidence for immunochemical heterogeneity of this hormone in acute pancreatitis.

Acute Disease↗

PubMed1977

An improved turbidimetric method for plasma fibrinogen.

Our experience in the use of Ellis' and Stransky's turbidimetric technique for the determination of plasma fibrinogen is presented. We standardized the test using a plasma pool whose fibrinogen content was determined by a weighed clot technique. The turbidimetric-fibrinogen test is accurate, sensitive, specific, reproducible, convenient, and inexpensive. Correlations between the turbidimetric method and the weighed clot reference method was shown. The assay is sensitive to as little as 25 mg/dl plasma fibrinogen, and the results are not affected by samples with a high content of lipids, bilirubin, fibrin split products, lymphangiogram dye, or therapeutic levels of heparin. Day-to-day replicate determinations on a plasma pool yielded a coefficient of variation of 3.4 percent. Results from as many as 10 plasma samples can be obtained in 30 minutes (10-minutes working time). Reagent cost is less than one cent per test.

Fibrinogen↗

PubMed1976

Hypercalcitoninemia in infancy.

Immunoreactive calcitonin (iCT) was measured in 19 infants with neonatal hypocalcemia. The infants had a variety of neonatal diseases and stresses. iCT levels were generally elevated to two to 20 times the adult values. Poor correlation existed between the infant age and the level of iCT or between iCT alone and the serum calcium. However, there was significant correlation between the serum calcium and the ratio of the iCT to infant age from conception, suggesting that both infant age and iCT levels in combination may be related to hypocalcemia. Also, it appears that a variety of neonatal stresses may be associated with increased sensitivity to the hypocalcemic effect of iCT, as well as increased levels of iCT.

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